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Still Life is a short play in five scenes by Noël Coward, one of ten plays that make up Tonight at 8.30, a cycle written to be performed across three evenings. [ n 1 ] One-act plays were unfashionable in the 1920s and 30s, but Coward was fond of the genre and conceived the idea of a set of short pieces to be played across several evenings.
Coward in 1972. Sir Noël Peirce Coward (16 December 1899 – 26 March 1973) was an English playwright, composer, director, actor, and singer, known for his wit, flamboyance, and what Time magazine called "a sense of personal style, a combination of cheek and chic, pose and poise".
Coward adapted Still Life for the screen as Brief Encounter in 1945. [37] The film was remade in 1974 starring Richard Burton and Sophia Loren. [37] For a 1952 film, Meet Me Tonight (called Tonight at 8:30 in the US), directed by Anthony Pelissier, Coward adapted Ways and Means, Red Peppers and Fumed Oak. [38]
Coward wrote more than three hundred songs. The Noël Coward Society's website, drawing on performing statistics from the publishers and the Performing Rights Society, names "Mad About the Boy" (from Words and Music) as Coward's most popular song, followed, in order, by: "
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The two lead roles were cast with "wild disregard for suitability," according to Brian McFarlane, who has described the film as "a total disaster." [2] Originally intended to have a television screening in the United States followed by a cinema release in the rest of the world, its poor reception in New York led to the international plans being abandoned.
John Gielgud as Sebastien and Joyce Carey as Isobel, 1956. Nude with Violin is a play in three acts (later revised into two acts) by Noël Coward.A light comedy of manners, the play is a satire on "Modern Art", criticism, artistic pretension and the value placed on art.